The invincible airplane

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Using the new 2026 data (supplemental poverty), here's my update. Bringing every poor family w/ children in the US up to the poverty line would cost just $67.4 billion. We can do that with a 0.88% tax on incomes over (poverty line + $46,556). Here is the tax required per family, by income:

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Katie Zacharia was practicing law the right way. by Ezra Klein

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This is so evergreen there are three different new papers I think it might be reacting to, and it might actually be to none of them. Or to all of them.

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I don't endorse AI detection for unsupervised, high-stakes decisions. But we need tools to reduce the time and effort it takes to wade through the exponentially increasing quantity of text dumped on us to evaluate. I don't see what choice we have but to automate at least initial screening.

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